Strategic Planning Day

Posted by Unknown at Saturday, February 16, 2013 | 0 comments

Well today's strategic planning day was a good eye opener into the results of our community surveys. One big result that was very obvious to all of us was "the basics". Of the highest priorities were issues such as roads, footpaths and emergency management. We now have an understanding of what the community wants. Our job now is to put this information into a plan that will produce some good results for the next 4 years. I for one look forward to this process as this is the first REAL step towards shaping our shire's future! As you may recall these topics were amongst the top issues I wanted to tackle when I was elected to council. This doesn't mean that your voice stops here. Keep your suggestions coming in, because we still want to hear from you.

Another issue that had some healthy debate was rates. There was discussion around how could we reduce the percentage rate increases over the next few years. The risk we run though is a decrease in some services to aid this cut. Over the next few weeks will see council review it's expenditure priorities.